Good morning everybody. How was your weekend?

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An absolutely stellar weekend.

May 24, 2021, 8:25 AM

Friday, finished work and headed over to RH Mom's for a visit. Back home to play with the pup for a bit by the lake, then back to a waiting sirloin with a baked sweet potato with honey, butter, and crushed red pepper and several cold beers. Watched Army of the Dead on Netflix. I wouldn't call it a classic zombie movie, but it was a fun watch.

Saturday, up for for Coffee & Vinyl Saturday morning Select-O-Pick with the Mrs. Had several new discs to spin including American Aquarium, Sturgill Simpson, and Jon Prine Live. It was delightful. Took the pup over to the lake and let her swim for almost 2 hours, then back home for a quick bite to eat and a shower. Then head head over to pick up my Stingray bass from the luthier I recently discovered lives a half mile from me. Turns out the dude is almost a secret around town, and works magic on instruments. Came home and played for a bit and confirmed this guy is as good as his reputation. Mrs. was working her new part-time job at the summer camp on the island behind the house, so I made a homemade pizza on the ciabatta crust I had in the fridge. Turned out spectacularly. Then, grabbed the bass and headed off to the first full band LOUD electric jam we've had in a year and half. Knocked the rust off pretty quickly and pulled off a nice mix of our old standard set list and a handful of new ones we threw together on the fly. Had a fantastic time and ended up playing until 1am.

Sunday, slept in. Up for a coffee bracer and then a quick shower, and off to the grocery. Mrs. was working at camp again, so I came home and put the groceries away, then took the pup on a short hike downriver. Back over to RH Mom's for a quick visit, she was watching the softball game and things weren't looking good. Left just after 4 and headed up I-77 to the Thirsty Beaver for the first time in over a year and half to see the legendary Redd Volkaert play. The Beaver was hot, crowded, and absolutely electric since it was the first show since the pandemic shut down. Lots of the old regulars and lots of musicians in attendance. Come to find out that several of the guys playing country in working bands around Charlotte are originally from Rock Hill. I had no idea until yesterday, so it was a great show and wonderful time commiserating with homeboys. Back home at 9, quick microwave meal and then into the Big Chair like a zombie until bedtime.

This was the first 19/19 Covids weekend since the pandemic started. I was supposed to be in Maryville for Ray Wylie Hubbard with aero & SharkGirl because sis was going to be out of town and we were going to dog sit with Joonyer's pups but neither ended up happening. Turned out that karma was on my side anyway...it was a glorious weekend after all. I am paying for it a bit this morning though. Five hours of standing with a 9 pound bass on Saturday and 4 hours of standing on a concrete floor at the Beaver last night has me kind of stiff in the joints this morning. Worth it though.

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Friday- Walked to the Windjammer to see a Zeppelin cover bad--Zoso. Protip: If you are 50+ and trying to look like Robert Plant at 28, maybe you might want to do some crunches, or situps or somethin'. Anyway, they were pretty good, played outside. Didn't play "the Ocean" and a couple other favorites, but overall I give it a B+ for effort. I was going to leave, but stopped and watched the band inside for another hour or so. Made it home at 12. The joys of getting old--my ears are still ringing today.

Saturday I drove up to Murrell's inlet to look at 2 houses. One of them was walking distance to the marshwalk, and both had potential but needed a lot of work to make them functional for us. Kind of a wasted trip, but worth it sort of, I guess, to get a feeling of what I want to spend is going to buy us.

Later when I got home I goofed around for a bit then walked up to the Bing-ee (the Dinghy) to see Hans Wenzel do a few sets. He obviously didn't want to be there, and for Hans, he was phoning it in. It was super crowded with drunk Jersyites and I think it was annoying him. I bought him a PBR and talked for a minute, then we walked back home. Next time, I'm bringing my own beer. They only had 2 bartenders and it took forever to get beer.

Sunday slept all morning, then walked down to the beach to see what was going on. Things I noticed: little black kids are cuter acting than little white ones, and all kids run and around scream and squeal a lot like they are being eaten by sharks. That's annoying AF. People with blue hair are typically pasty white and have a lot of cellulite. Dudes who look like lumberjacks with long beards probably should wear more sunscreen. In general, there are a lot of very fat people. Skinny in shape people are the rarity, and not the norm. Seems that's flipped 180 degrees from when I was young and used to hang out on the beach.

Also, COVID is no longer a thing apparently. People are back to invading your space and getting as close as possible to everyone else in an attempt to be "there" faster than everyone else.

8/10 covids, with the only detractors being loud, rude yankees.

Welp, the Tigers got swept but I didn't die.

Man, what an egg sucking weekend of baseball.***

I caught 8 on Tuesday night on the dikes

I was just trying for some catfish off the dock.

Played golf: Meh. Drank beer: OK. Watched golf: Good. Grandkids: Wild AF.***

About average

Fantastic

In that order?***

Re: In that order?***

Ver nice! Skirt steak grilling for us and frens

lol, Monte is not going anywhere***

I know ;)

Another stinker

Having to offer so much over asking makes me wonder why

You can have my house for $43,500 over asking

Mine is only $40k over aksing....***

Awesome

An absolutely stellar weekend.

Congrats on the fish

I can show you how to catch one even bigger.

walked into Shoeless a few weeks ago

See, they know who I am so I don't have that experience.

yeah like a hazy IPA or something

Friday night was bourbon and to bed

Friday: spent the day working on projects around the house

gas station hibachi?

There shouldn't be***

Goot

lot of relaxing

Anniversary Weekend so you know it was LIT

Generally sheety.

hope you getting to feeling better hombre

Re: hope you getting to feeling better hombre

tight - another reason for us to hang out

I'm old-skool man.

I keep waiting on you to say you just

Great!

It has been a while since I've dished out this

K

First person in history to play Augusta and

Lol, could be true***

However, I should add

You're not wrong

Busy and good af

Music-y

Murrell's Inlet: Rock Hill on the coast.

Epic***

Ugh....

Spent $650 on a dog on Friday, he spent the rest of the

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